In fact, seven Northlanders helped lift the 1980 U.S. Olympic team to the gold medal, and four of them went on to play in the NHL.

Of that group, Roseau native Neal Broten went on to hoist the Stanley Cup, becoming one of several Northlanders to have that honor.

"This is probably the best part right here when you get to see all the kids and the whole community come and enjoy a trophy as great as this," Cloquet native and 1999 Stanley Cup winner Jamie Langenbrunner said.

"It's so surreal right now," Grand Rapids native and Stanley Cup winner Alex Goligoski said. "It's an unbelievable feeling. It's just really cool to have it for the day."

The list of NHL players born and bred in the Northland goes on, and on, and on, and on.